Hosting help needed

Hi, i'm new with online races.
I want to host a race and play with some friends and AI.
As i understand, i can do it with hosting a race or champ and configure all i want.
I have the lifetime license.
I have open my ports on my router (d link 604)
firewall also
firewall on windows 7 rfactor2 in list checked

I use the host function (using a race event simply for testing instead of creating vmods to be sure )
and when done, launch to load the track

The problem is that i can't find my race on multi player list (i should no?)
I search on wan, lan, etc, nothing happen.

Last but not least, i see in my "game information" in the window of my hosting control panel
that my data rate is alsways 0% (upload/download)

Any idea?

Please help me, i'm no programmer and just want to create a race with my own settings

Thanks in advance

 

Do you know if your friend are seeing your server?

 

Don t know yet. In any case what can the reason be? If he see it or not i mean

 

0% is normal, because no one is on the server. Which ports did you forward to your PC? Try putting your PC in your router's DMZ for testing (once it works, you can put it back to normal and try to work out the ports - right now you don't know if it's a port issue or something else).

 

Try to connect to localhost via IP?

 

Yeah I would try to use the +Connect command to join your own local IP just in case.

I think I heard report of people not see their own server on steam but people are able to join.

 

How can i do that?
I'm really lost when it concern ip command or whatever
I followed step by step guides for adressing ports in my router and generally step by step works for other modification or setup in programms.
But there, i don't know the process. ;ss

 

Problem solved!

I'm totally stupid i've check the "dedicated server with console ui" box in launcher and bam..It works like a charm.

Thanks for your help but sorry to having lost your time with trolls like me lolll )
Cheers